• Barrel Racing—Restricted to cloverleaf.
• Eventing —Includes USEAapproved events.
• Color Class
• Cutting—Includes NCHA-, ACHA-, and CCHA-approved events.
• Dressage—Includes USDF-approved events.
• Driving—Includes pleasure driving and ADS-approved events.
• Endurance and Competitive Trail Riding— Includes NATRC- and AERC-approved rides.
• English Pleasure—Includes all non-breed registry-sponsored competition, including NSBA-approved events, bridle path hack, hunter under saddle and English pleasure.
• Equitation—Includes both Western- and English-style equitation, horsemanship and hunt seat.
• Games—Includes cowboy mounted shooting, key hole and other games. (Cloverleaf barrels do not count in the Games category.)
• Halter—Not to include Color classes
• Handicap Competitions—Competitions approved by a nationally recognized
organization, such as NARHA.
• Over Fences—Includes hunter hack, working hunter, all variations of jumping.
• Reining—Includes snaffle bit, hackamore, open and NRHA-approved events.
• Roping—Includes team roping, heading, heeling, tie-down roping, steer stopping and breakaway roping, as well as USTRC and USCRA-approved events.
• Showmanship at Halter
• Team Penning—Includes all non-breed association-sponsored competition.
• Timed Events—Restricted to pole bending, barrel racing other than cloverleaf, stakes racing
• Trail—Includes all non-breed associationsponsored competition.
• Walk Trot
• Western Pleasure—Includes all non-breed registry-sponsored competition, including NSBA-approved events.
• Western Riding—Includes all non-breed registry-sponsored competition.
• Working Cow Horse
• Working Ranch Horse
• Yearling Longe Line
• 4-H—English performance
• 4-H—Western performance
• 4-H—English showmanship
• 4-H—Western showmanship
• 4-H—Timed events

Official performance record
Through PAC, APHA records the performance of your registered American Paint Horse— Regular Registry or Breeding Stock—when it performs in an activity outside of breedapproved shows. For your victories in any PAC
category, you earn credits that are recorded on your horse’s official lifetime performance record. PAC leaders in each category are listed in the Paint Horse Journal monthly.

Recognition for your success
A Certificate of Recognition is awarded to your registered Paint Horse when it earns at least 20 credits in any one approved category. A Certificate of Achievement is awarded when that horse earns 60 or more credits in any one
approved category.

PAC Year-End Leaders who earn the most points in one category will receive a Gist belt buckle and recognition in the Paint Horse Journal.

Six PAC Top Five awards go to the top five horses earning the most credits in at least six different categories. The title of Six PAC Champion is awarded to any horse that wins at least six different categories on the PAC Leader’s
List in a single year. A Gist belt buckle is awarded to the Six PAC Champion. PAC is co-sponsored by Gist Silversmiths, Kent Feeds and Pro Orthopedics.